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boink · 01-18-2010, 06:39 PM

hey

I have a sansa clip and a sansa thumb drive, I'm on an XP Dell comp.

I'm hoping to use the thumb drive to trade music and movies with friends at work, but they have macs.

I lent my sansa clip to my friend and he said there was nothing in the music folder. of course there is, he was listening to them all day.

I don't know if it's an issue but I know lots of my mp3's don't have id tags. I just drag and drop on my PC and brows by folder on the clip some I have added information when I recorded them in Audacity or while listening to them in winamp I may change the name and add artist name in "file info" within winamp...not sure but I think that is part of the id tag on the mp3 file. but I'm not at all consistent on that.

anyway, what I want out of the thumb drive is just to give my friends some movies and music off my comp without too much hassle. been looking at google results but haven't seen anything yet.

any help or links to school me on this ? thanks

I had a similar problem when my buddy gave me his external USB hd so I could give him some of my music but it didn't show up in my computer or anywhere that I could find.

the_marq · 01-18-2010, 10:41 PM

What format is your thumb drive in?

NTFS?
FAT?

Macs (as far as I know) cannot read an NTFS drive. You could try reformatting your thumb drive in FAT. Note that this will erase all the data currently on the drive so you'll have to reload it after the reformat.

boink · 01-18-2010, 10:55 PM

fat32. if they need to download an app to make it work I doubt it'll happen. they arn't that ambitious.
I put a few things on it and it was avalible on my PS3.

Vigilante · 01-19-2010, 01:21 AM

Pretty much all *nix will read fat32. Mac OS X is a derivative of darwin last I checked, so they should have no issues.

Most thumb drives are fat32 and they are mac compatible, so it shouldn't be an issue either way.

01-18-2010, 06:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
boink Addict Location: Seattle	pc vs mac and a thumb drive/mp3 player hey I have a sansa clip and a sansa thumb drive, I'm on an XP Dell comp. I'm hoping to use the thumb drive to trade music and movies with friends at work, but they have macs. I lent my sansa clip to my friend and he said there was nothing in the music folder. of course there is, he was listening to them all day. I don't know if it's an issue but I know lots of my mp3's don't have id tags. I just drag and drop on my PC and brows by folder on the clip some I have added information when I recorded them in Audacity or while listening to them in winamp I may change the name and add artist name in "file info" within winamp...not sure but I think that is part of the id tag on the mp3 file. but I'm not at all consistent on that. anyway, what I want out of the thumb drive is just to give my friends some movies and music off my comp without too much hassle. been looking at google results but haven't seen anything yet. any help or links to school me on this ? thanks I had a similar problem when my buddy gave me his external USB hd so I could give him some of my music but it didn't show up in my computer or anywhere that I could find. __________________ when you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer. Superstition ain't the way.

01-18-2010, 10:41 PM	#2 (permalink)
the_marq All hail the Mountain King Location: Black Mesa	What format is your thumb drive in? NTFS? FAT? Macs (as far as I know) cannot read an NTFS drive. You could try reformatting your thumb drive in FAT. Note that this will erase all the data currently on the drive so you'll have to reload it after the reformat. __________________ The Truth: Johnny Cash could have kicked Bruce Lee's ass if he wanted to. #3 in a series

01-19-2010, 01:21 AM	#4 (permalink)
Vigilante Broken Arrow Location: US	Pretty much all nix will read fat32. Mac OS X is a derivative of darwin last I checked, so they should have no issues. Most thumb drives are fat32 and they are mac compatible, so it shouldn't be an issue either way. __________________ We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.* -Winston Churchill

01-18-2010, 10:55 PM	#3 (permalink)
boink Addict Location: Seattle	fat32. if they need to download an app to make it work I doubt it'll happen. they arn't that ambitious. I put a few things on it and it was avalible on my PS3.